1799-War of the Second Coalition-Habsburg Monarchy|Austrian forces Battle of Winterthur (1799)|defeats the French First Republic|French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the northeastern Swiss Plateau because of the town's location at the junction of seven cross-roads.

1896-The Fujita scale|F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 United States dollar|USD).

1965-Vietnam War-American warships begin the first bombardment of National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam|National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.

1967-Australia-s vote in favor of a Australian referendum, 1967 (Aboriginals)|constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.

1967-The U.S. Navy-aircraft carrier {{USS|John F. Kennedy|CV-67|6}} is Ship naming and launching|launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline Kennedy|Caroline.

1968-The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France-(National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.

1968-Major League Baseball-s National League awards Montreal, Quebec|Montreal the first franchise in Canada and the first franchise outside the United States. (the Montreal Expos)

1997-The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones-can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.

1998-Oklahoma City bombing-Michael Fortier (American)|Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorism|terrorist plot.

2001-Members of the Islamism|Islamist-separatist group Abu Sayyaf Dos Palmas kidnappings|seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.

2006-The May 2006 Java earthquake-strikes devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta (city)|Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.